R. Kelly

R. Kelly
Character Information
Gender	Male
Race	African American
Hair	Black
Age	54
Date of Birth	January 8, 1967
Occupation	Singer/Songwriter
Religion	Christian
Voiced by	Trey Parker
Wikipedia	R. Kelly
Appearances
First	"Trapped in the Closet"

For other uses, see Kelly (disambiguation).

Robert Sylvester Kelly is an American singer and songwriter, who appeared in the Season Nine episode, "Trapped in the Closet".

Background

In "Fat Camp", Butters collects the manatee remains Kenny McCormick had vomited with his "R. Kelly Cup" (an actual bottle with the face of R. Kelly and his name written above the picture) and gives it to Kenny so he'd eat it back after all the kids were willing to give him money to do so.

In "Trapped in the Closet", the local news media asks him to sing to Tom Cruise, who is refusing to come out of Stan Marsh's closet. When John Travolta joins Tom Cruise in the closet, R. Kelly pulls out a gun and holds a woman in the crowd hostage. He eventually joins Tom Cruise and John Travolta in the closet and sings with them. When he leaves with them at the episode's conclusion, he looks timid and scared, implying they sexually abused him. He is later seen at the MTV Music Awards in "Britney's New Look".

R. Kelly is infamously known in real life for allegedly videotaping himself having sex with underage girls and was even charged with child pornography, although his pedophilia was not mocked on the show. The fact that Tom Cruise and John Travolta possibly sexually abused him could be a reference to the incident.

Appearance

R. Kelly has a thick black beard, as well as black eyebrows that are very close to eyes. He wears a creme suit, creme pants, a white v-neck, and an earring on his right ear.

Images of R. Kelly

"...and I pull out my gun!"

"If Tom Cruise and John Travolta don't come out of the closet I'm gonna cap this bitch."

"Two, I'm gonna cap some bitch."

Personality

R. Kelly seems to obsessively sing every word he says. He carries around a small pistol, which he has no problems using to intimidate others into getting what he wants. His personality in the episode is a homage to his exaggerated personality in his musical video series also called "Trapped in the Closet".